So wie die Stern’ am Himmelszelt | So wie die Stern’ am Himmelszelt

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from Volkslieder (Folksongs)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Som stjärnorna på himmelen

Language: Swedish (Svenska)

Our translations: ENG GER

Som stjärnorna på himmelen, 
när natten faller på, 
så tindrade hans ögon, 
så klara och så blå, 
så röder var hans mund 
som rosorna i lund 
om våren.

Men skyarne församlades 
och solen vände bort, 
ty livet liksom kärleken 
och våren är så kort. 
När löven föllo av, 
de föllo på hans grav 
den tida!

Om alla träd i skogarne 
och böljorna de blå, 
om all markens blomster 
hade fåglalungor små,
de kunde ej ändå 
min hjärtesorg förmå 
att sjunga.

Text Authorship:

from Volkslieder (Folksongs) ( H. ) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867 - 1942), "Som stjärnorna på himmelen", op. 5 no. 3 (1892), from Fyra visor i svensk folkton, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Like the stars in the sky", copyright © 2020
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "So wie die Stern’ am Himmelszelt", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Bertram Kottmann

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 21
Word count: 80

So wie die Stern’ am Himmelszelt

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Swedish (Svenska)

So wie die Stern’ am Himmelszelt,
wenn niedersinkt die Nacht,
so strahlten seine Augen, hell
und leuchtend blau und klar,
sein Mund so rot und fein
wie Rosenblüt’ im Hain
zum Lenz.

Allein es zogen Wolken auf, 
die Sonn’ zog sich zurück,
das Leben nimmt rasch seinen Lauf
wie Lenz und Lieb’ und Glück.
Und als das Laub fiel ab,
da fiel es auf sein Grab
damals.

Wenn jeder Baum in Wald und Feld
und jede Well’ im Meer
und jede Blume auf der Welt
der Vögel Lunge hätt’,
keiner würd’s gelingen,
dennoch zu besingen
mein Leid.

Text Authorship:

Translation from Swedish (Svenska) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2016 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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a text in Swedish (Svenska) from Volkslieder (Folksongs)
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This text was added to the website: 2016-11-29
Line count: 21
Word count: 97